This and this. People wildly underestimate Genshins player base size. Also because of the lower rates of new character banners but also lower pull income Welkin is of significantly higher value than most other gachas $5 daily passes. I'm not sure Genshin can ever drop to single digit millions without some catastrophic happenstance, and I don't mean controversy I mean like the servers literally being off-line due to natural disaster or something.
I remember Genshin even having a patch once without even a single new character (v3.8) lmao insane work for a character gacha game to not release a new character for a whole patch, but I now wonder how much that patch made.
Genshin has a much, much larger playerbase than HSR, so its floor is much higher because of the Welkin. The reason HSR can compete and even reach above Genshin at the top end for banners like Castorice, Phainon, and Cyrene is that it has way more spenders per capita. Especially big spenders because of the very low day-to-day investment, meaning the playerbase is much more jobbers.
Yeah Genshin has from what I've seen about 2.5-4x higher player base than hsr. Their baseline with just reruns banners like in Nov 2025 is still 20mil+
I would argue it is impossible for genshin to hit single digits. HSR single digit you see now @7M is probably just monthly passes and even then many players are taking break before 4.0 because there is literally nothing going on. And HSR has a much smaller player base than genshin. So if the floor for HSR is 7M, genshin’s absolute worst floor is still in double digits.
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u/Aiyyogxoto Feb 01 '26
Have genshin ever had single digit millions?